PeriodicallyPedantic

Beans? Look here youngin

You're being intentionally obstinate. You keep implying that you can't host your own relay, to which many PDSs (that also link to other relays) can't link.

With bluesky, people choose what federations to join by selecting which relays their PDSs will join.

The analogy of geopolitical federation is cute, but that's an analogy, it's not actually what federation is when talking about technology. You seem upset that bluesky achieves federation with a different architecture, and idk why you'd be upset about that, or even care

It's not Fediverse™ because it's not activitypub.
But that doesn't make it not federated

Just because it uses a different mechanism to achieve federation you're going to say that it doesn't count as federation? That's wild.

PDSs get federated by relays.
You can have multiple relays which means you have multiple federations. This is similar to how the Fediverse ends up with pockets completely defederated from each other.
Except that a PDS can be in multiple relays (federations) which the Fediverse can't do.

You're right that currently there is no meaningful federation because there is only one relay, and it's a problem that the cost is so prohibitive. But to say that it isn't a Fediverse is kinda disingenuous.

I don't think so?

But a single PDSs can talk to multiple relays.
And I think an app view can talk to multiple relays (or at least switch between them)

I see this as an absolute win

Imagine the 100m dash at the Olympics. But for cars.
Just a short straight line. Head to head race, first one to the end wins.

For a long time we've said it's important to separate semantics and presentation (eg html vs css).

I've always wondered why we never followed our own advice when creating new programming languages. Let the IDE present whatever TF you want, and in the background it's simply building an Abstract Syntax Tree and serializing that to a file in whatever serialization format it prefers.

I've dreamed of making my own data-flow language that follows that principle, but I have neither the knowledge of compilers nor the free time to try.

That's not quite true afact.

There are 3 types of servers:

1. Personal data server (actually hosts your post)
2. Relay (aggregates posts from all PDSs, responsible for federation of PDSs)
3. App views (generates feeds from the relay)

Bluesky hosts the only relay I'm aware of, because relays are very expensive to host. But afaict anyone can host a relay.

So if we're to describe it:
PDSs are nations states
Relays are the federation of those nation states App views are like the ambassadors of the federation.

Except that PDSs can be part of multiple federations, and app views can be ambassadors for multiple federations. Ok not a great analogy.

Oh fuck, for free???
I love Subaru

Unless you're climbing a penis ladder

I love it

What about item damage?
Items have hit points, you can damage them... I'm assuming that counts?

Although idk if I'm ready to switch to the new rules mid-campaign